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2013-05-17 16:31:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Red Cactus Flowers

2013-05-17 16:22:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google Developers Avoid Glass in Public

I was standing in line for this week’s Google I/O keynote when I asked a developer friend if he’d tried Glass yet.

“Oh, I have it right here in my backpack,” he gestured.

“Why aren’t you wearing it?” I asked.

“I’m not going to wear it in public!” he laughed.


http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672609/even-google-s-own-developers-wont-be-seen-wearing-google-glass

2013-05-16 23:25:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

NASA buys into Quantum Computer Platform

It will be shared by Google, Nasa, and other scientists, providing access to a machine said to be up to 3,600 times faster than conventional computers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22554494

2013-05-16 23:02:54 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Lawmakers Quiz Google about Glass Privacy

 U.S. lawmakers asked Google Inc. (GOOG) to explain how the company will protect the privacy of people viewed by those wearing the company’s Web-enabled eyeglasses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/google-glasses-quizzed-over-snooping-by-u-s-lawmakers.html

2013-05-16 15:46:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Miserable Layout & Waste of Space

Not sure about what I lothe more, the multi-column mismash where every post competes for attention in the stream, or the massive amount of space wasted in single column mode.

There should be some other options =)

2013-05-16 04:11:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Cactus Flowers

2013-05-16 01:56:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Cactus Flowers

2013-05-12 14:35:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The Empire Strikes Back

In this world where everyone is a publisher, there is a trend to the extreme -- where those who want to stand out opt for sensationalism and hyperbole over nuanced analysis. In this world where page views are currency, heat is often more valued than light. Stark black-and-white caricatures are sometimes more valued than shades-of-gray reality.

--Frank Shaw, VP Corporate Communications @Microsoft

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57584029-75/microsoft-responds-to-extreme-windows-8-criticism/

2013-05-10 02:33:03 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Thieves Take $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment charging eight men — including their suspected ringleader, who was found dead in the Dominican Republic last month. The indictment and criminal complaints in the case offer a glimpse into what the authorities said was one of the most sophisticated and effective cybercrime attacks ever uncovered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/nyregion/eight-charged-in-45-million-global-cyber-bank-thefts.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

2013-05-08 16:54:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Sweeping Overhaul of Wiretap Laws sought by FBI

While the F.B.I.’s original proposal would have required Internet communications services to each build in a wiretapping capacity, the revised one, which must now be reviewed by the White House, focuses on fining companies that do not comply with wiretap orders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/obama-may-back-fbi-plan-to-wiretap-web-users.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=1&

2013-05-08 16:28:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

German Courts Strike Apple's Privacy Policies

A Berlin court struck down eight of 15 provisions in Apple’s general data-use terms because they deviate too much from German laws,...

In the U.S. lawsuit, Apple is accused of improperly collecting data on the locations of customers through iPhones, even after the device’s geo-location feature was turned off, and sharing personal information with third parties.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/apple-s-customer-data-privacy-rules-struck-down-by-german-court.html

2013-05-08 14:58:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Elon Musk's SpaceX signs lease at NM spaceport

+Richard Branson 's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic LLC, is the anchor tenant at the spaceport.

It [SpaceX] agreed to a three-year lease to do testing of its "Grasshopper" reusable rocket in southern New Mexico.

http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Elon-Musks-SpaceX-signs-lease-at-NM-spaceport-4495620.php

2013-05-03 01:05:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

EFF Reports on Corporate Internet Privacy

In this annual report, the Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data.

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013#executive-summary

2013-05-03 00:49:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Samsung's Android Devices are Mil-Secure

The U.S. National Security Agency worked with Samsung to create “Secure-Enhanced Android,” a version of Google’s operating system with multiple layers of software and hardware protection, Tim Wagner, Samsung vice president and general manager of enterprise, has said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-02/pentagon-approves-samsung-devices-for-military-use

2013-05-02 17:48:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Government Spyware resembles FireFox

Mozilla has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a company that sells spyware allegedly disguised as the Firefox browser to governments.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/spyware-used-by-governments-poses-as-firefox-and-mozilla-is-angry/

2013-05-02 17:40:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mobil Industry Fails to Track Stolen Phones

Tracking technology available, but wireless companies are not interested in protecting pricey smartphones.

http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=fb2355d5-50fd-4096-8363-11579be6ce11

2013-04-30 14:11:33 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

FBI seeking mandatory backdoors to popular websites

Last year, FBI Director Robert Mueller related similar concerns to Congress, stating it needs "wiretapping backdoors" into popular websites, or it would have to shut down more investigations. The FBI's position was reportedly that installing such "backdoors" should be mandatory, not optional.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/feds-want-to-expand-wiretap-law-from-isps-to-google-facebook/

2013-04-25 13:20:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Wireless Traffic Good for IPV6 Growth

2013-04-22 14:31:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Americans getting more Stressed, Depressed and Medicated

Incredibly, 11 percent of all Americans aged 12 and older are currently taking SSRI antidepressants – those highly controversial, mood-altering psychiatric drugs with the FDA’s “suicidality” warning label and alarming correlation with school shooters.

Women are especially prone to depression, with a stunning 23 percent of all American women in their 40s and 50s – almost one in four – now taking antidepressants, according to a major study by the CDC.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/

h/t: http://girllostinthecity.com

2013-04-14 14:25:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Apple to dish out 53m to settle waterlogged device claims

Hundreds of thousands could get $200 settlement after owners under warranty were denied servicing from the tech giant due to faulty 'liquid contact indicators'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308179/Apple-shell-53-million-class-action-pay-day-iPhone-iPod-owners-turned-replacements-water-damaged-devices.html

2013-04-11 02:08:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Iranian claims to have invented flux capacitor Time Machine

Razeghi says Iran's government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country, and forecast the fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies and oil prices by using his new invention.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine.html

2013-04-08 15:00:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

What else is new?

An article on Google Glass technology was shared almost 2,000 times on social media, indicating that readers may not have cared, or known, if it was journalism or sponsored content, although the series was identified as such.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/business/media/sponsors-now-pay-for-online-articles-not-just-ads.html?ref=business&_r=0

2013-04-05 12:59:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Making a run for the Border

Operated from a Predator surveillance drone, the radar system has collected evidence that Border Patrol agents apprehended fewer than half of the foreign migrants and smugglers who had illegally crossed into a 150-square-mile stretch of southern Arizona.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-border-radar-20130404,0,2107595.story

2013-04-03 14:38:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Brain Mapping Project promoted by President Obama

Mr Obama said: There is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked, and the BRAIN initiative will change that by giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and better understand how we think and learn and remember. And that knowledge will be transformative."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22007007

2013-04-03 14:23:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Clear Budget iPhone in our Future?

Polaroid made a version of their popular instant camera with a clear case, so can Apple.

Note: Artist rendering - not an actual product

http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/whats-hot/what-can-the-budget-iphone-look-like/

2013-04-03 14:10:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How's your Commute going ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22015542

2013-04-03 14:03:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Darkleech hijacks 20K sites running Apache Software

Tens of thousands of websites, some operated by The Los Angeles Times, Seagate, and other reputable companies, have recently come under the spell of "Darkleech," a mysterious exploitation toolkit that exposes visitors to potent malware attacks.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/exclusive-ongoing-malware-attack-targeting-apache-hijacks-20000-sites/

2013-04-03 13:57:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Cable Boxes had role in last weeks Spamhaus DDOS episode

...the real enablers of the attack were the operators of more than 27 million computers around the globe who left their equipment wide open to a motivated attacker. Those enablers are not just companies, but regular people with home cable boxes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/technology/devices-like-cable-boxes-figured-in-internet-attack.html?_r=0

2013-03-28 13:47:49 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

More trouble in Mexico

Tierra Colorado is located on the road to Acapulco.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300381/Thousands-armed-vigilantes-takeover-Mexican-town-arrest-police-shoot-tourists-commander-killed-dumped-street.html

2013-03-28 13:44:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Google giveth Google Glass invitations and Google taketh away.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57576706-93/google-uninvites-some-winners-of-google-glass-contest/

2013-03-28 13:41:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Bitcoin Bonanaza

Financial crisis in Cyprus spurs growth in Bitcoin

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100597242

2013-03-27 15:26:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Spamhaus DDOS Attack not making much Impact on Net Speeds

BBC is reporting massive cyber attack, but it seems to be hysterical reporting. The proof is simply not there.


http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

2013-03-27 01:40:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Air Core Fiber Faster than Glass 

Although optic fibers transmit information using beams of light, that information doesn't actually go at "light speed." The speed of light, about 300,000 km/s, is the speed light travels in a vacuum. In a medium such as glass, it goes about 30 percent slower, a mere 200,000 km/s.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/fiber-cables-made-of-air-move-data-at-99-7-percent-the-speed-of-light/

2013-03-20 02:50:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

h/t http://experimentsinmanga.blogspot.com/

2013-03-20 02:35:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Watch the Fighting Robots

http://www.syfy.com/robotcombatleague

2013-03-18 14:12:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Internet Pioneers win the QE prize for Engineering

Sir Tim may be the best known of the winners, certainly in the UK. Working with others in the late 1980s, he helped develop the world wide web, which radically simplified the way information could be shared on the net.

Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf provided the engineering insights that actually made the internet work. Their TCP/IP protocols define the way data travels around the internet.

Louis Pouzin helped work out how data should be labelled so that it reached the right destination.

Marc Andreessen is the man who developed Mosaic, the first popular browser for the web.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21831916

2013-03-18 14:07:12 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New Hashtags seem to upset FaceBook users

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-hashtags-people-upset-20130315,0,1436995.story

2013-03-17 22:36:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Stop the Cyborgs

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57574607-93/google-glass-the-opposition-grows/

2013-03-13 16:35:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Has "South-by" lost its direction?

Used to be a lot of fun, now it's all business.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-sxsw-startups-idUSBRE92A10I20130313

2013-03-13 15:33:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Silicone fingers fools Biometric Scanner

As previously mentioned, Fingerprint Scanners are easy to beat.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130313-fake-fingers-fool-boss-brazil-hospital

2013-03-12 15:18:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Cyberattacks listed as #1 Threat to US by Intelligence Director

In Mr. Clapper’s prepared testimony, he said, “In some cases, the world is applying digital technologies faster than our ability to understand the security implications and mitigate potential risks.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/us/intelligence-official-warns-congress-that-cyberattacks-pose-threat-to-us.html?_r=0

2013-03-11 20:34:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

For all the Lance Armstrong fans

http://store.theonion.com/p-5045-cheat-to-win-bracelet.aspx

2013-03-11 20:26:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

BBC Report with good set of Photos

Since the first X-37B was launched in 2010, amateur satellite spotters have carefully followed the robotic spacecraft’s orbit, while those unconnected with the program have speculated that the plane could be anything from an anti-satellite weapon to so-called “on demand reconnaissance,” shorthand for a spy satellite that can be placed over any country in the world.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121123-secrets-of-us-military-spaceplane

2013-03-11 20:06:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Google Glass feature no one is talking about

Pervasive erosion of privacy.

http://creativegood.com/blog/the-google-glass-feature-no-one-is-talking-about/

2013-03-11 19:59:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Iran now blocking VPN connections

Many Iranians evade the filter through use of VPN software, which provides encrypted links directly to private networks based abroad, and can allow a computer to behave as if it is based in another country.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/10/us-iran-internet-idUSBRE9290CV20130310

2013-03-11 19:51:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Talk to the Shoe

More nonsense from #SXSW = South by So What

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-shoe-sxsw-168252/

2013-03-11 15:15:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

No Glass for You at Seattle Dive Bar

A Google spokesperson responds: "It is still very early days for Glass, and we expect that as with other new technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57573387-93/seattle-dive-bar-becomes-first-to-ban-google-glass/

2013-03-06 21:52:23 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Dude you're getting Dell

Michael Dell said in February he had struck a deal to take Dell private, partnering with private equity firm Silver Lake and Microsoft Corp. The goal is to facilitate Dell's difficult transition from a commodity maker of computers into a provider of services to enterprises as a private company, away from Wall Street's scrutiny.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/06/us-dell-specialcommittee-idUSBRE9250MU20130306

2013-03-06 20:28:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Say it ain't so Mr. President

1. No Pink slips for teachers
2. No pay cuts for Capitol Janitors
3. No security check delays at the Airport 

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/03/06/white-house-cries-wolf-3-times-over-past-10-days-about-sequester-cuts/

2013-03-06 16:40:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

FAA to close 173 contract air traffic control towers

The towers are part of the FAA's contract tower program, in which 251 towers are staffed with contractors instead of FAA employees. Though little-known, contract towers are widely used by the FAA to manage air traffic. Such towers handle approximately 28% of all control tower operations, although the towers being cut account for a little less than 6% of commercial airline operations.

 http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/travel/air-traffic-towers-closing/?google_editors_picks=true